Chris,
This is such a good thing to do! I too have many of the original plants the
owner I remember as a child had at my house. I only moved across the
street! I would visit with her while she tended the bushes and flowers!
She was a school teacher and never missed an opportunity to teach! She is
gone now but her plants live on!
Vera
On 5/7/06, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> How wonderful.... It is nice to get things back on
> track especially with the special memories :)
>
> Donna
>
> --- Chris Petersen <chris@widom-assoc.com> wrote:
>
> > I spent much of today working in my mother's 300
> > square foot garden. Mom
> > died nine years ago and her garden has been
> > neglected ever since. I tried to
> > do some work in it when she was sick, but it was a
> > loosing battle. Mom
> > liked some weeds that she called "wild flowers"
> > weeds and let them go to
> > seed. Even so, the garden had old fashioned
> > favorites and always had lots of
> > color. Whenever I needed Queen Anne's Lace for an
> > arrangement, I knew where
> > I could get bouquets full! Dad smothered the garden
> > in chopped leaves in the
> > fall, so the soil was not our usual mostly sand
> > blend.
> >
> > I have a lot of garden of my own to tend to, so that
> > garden didn't make it
> > to my "must do" list over the past years, but it's
> > been nagging at me ever
> > since we bought the property. Well, this spring,
> > April, I got help digging
> > the weeds out. While removing the weeds, I dug up
> > any perennials that I
> > could identify. Then, I had to tease the weed roots
> > out of the clumps and
> > pot up the plants.
> >
> > With the garden cleaned out, I've been planting
> > lilies, daylilies, shrubs
> > and perennials. Today I put the salvaged plants
> > back into the garden! I
> > know that my mom was smiling from heaven at that
> > sight! It made me feel so
> > happy to see the garden looking fresh and beautiful
> > again. It was such a
> > hopeful feeling to see life renewed where there was
> > only ugliness.
> >
> > Mom's garden is back!
> >
> > Chris Petersen
> > Northport, Long Island, New York
> > Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00)
> >
> > chris@widom-assoc.com
> > My garden: http://photos.yahoo.com/chrispnpt
> >
> >
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